i shot some bar trivia nights last week and who will be my trivia friends? it seemed so chill to have a burger and be a nerd. i know so many useless things

this video sucks because you can’t hear them all going voot vootvoot in pleasure

i photographed a youth poetry thing last weekend and one girl had a poem about how she does all the grocery shopping now because her mom is afraid to leave the house and i’ve been thinking of her every day

If you are in chicago and you have thought - I just don’t know what to do - I have somewhere you need to be on Saturday! www.eventbrite.com/e/free-chica...

extremely specific shopping urls are my favorite thing and this week i've had reason to be on both tarpsnow.com and myknobs.com so i'm basically living my best life

Northwest Side rapid response confirms federal agents present this morning in the Belmont Cragin and Logan Square neighborhoods of Chicago.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

my friend was like "run a 5k with me" and turns out now i'm on a team and it's a fundraiser so if you want to donate money for the AIDS run you can do so here and help me make my friend look good on their work team: action.aidschicago.org/fundraiser/6...

GlitterGuts’s evil twin Glitter Gutsy has procured a beachy backdrop and maybe even an almost-accurate camera so you can pose like Bunny Yeager

I want to once again reiterate what I said earlier. The reason the vast majority of Democratic and so-called centrist elites have acquiesced over and over again is that they are COMPLICIT. Because they actually know that direct confrontation is how you defeat fascists and choose not to do it.

*Gen Z Nepalis have entered the chat*

this is your annual reminder to please take off your hetero-imitative frogskin and dance to a lesbian/gay spirit

I should share that I very easily got a flu AND covid shot at walgreen's yesterday, for free, they didn't even run it through insurance, so if you want to do that, you should

rip edgar allan poe, you would have loved That's So Raven

We can scare him off.

It's clear that printing and distribution of my publication TASKS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD IN CHICAGO is going to disrupt my life at a time when I have no time, so here are files you can print from. It's a double-sided 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper. Please do not edit the text. Have fun!

Chicago traffic has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

I actually watched some of this and was like "why is that photographer shooting from the ground with a 70-200" and I still don't know the answer to "why" but yeah that's exactly what I expected the results to be

i'm afraid donald trump is in a classic Death Becomes Her situation. he drank isabella rosellini's eternal life potion 20 years ago but he's fallen down so many staircases that the seams holding his torso together keep melting under studio lighting conditions. he's very much alive if in total agony

trying to sell some out-dated a/v equipment on marketplace and i just have a never ending stream of non-committal men in my messages which is really triggering my straight-era ptsd

we can just keep saying he's dead and refusing to credit or acknowledge anyone who refers to him being alive, this will work, trust me and just follow my lead

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Chicago: Buckle up for the invasion. Save this graphic. We’re at your service. 🫡

he'll always be dead in our hearts

well if it's the last backdrop i'm ever able to buy for cheap, at least it had personality

AOC, ostensibly the leftmost national officeholder, hasn’t even bothered to post in defense of trans people once during the entire trump administration so far

this garbage framing really needs to stop. it's not about crime. we know this. asking people how they feel about crime pretends that it is about crime. pretending it's about crime is supporting trump's framing. stop it.

Everything is shit EXCEPT THE ANIMAL VIDEOS. We are entering the Prestige Animal Video Era

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

THESE COLORS DON'T RUN

The response so far has been amazing! Auditions are open for a few more weeks, but we'd love to hear more from: - Spanish-speaking talent! - Black/biracial femmes to read for Erika! - Femme VAs for The Interviewer!

He's doing really well but I need JB to also: 1) walk his ass down to the various hospitals that stopped providing lifesaving health services to trans kids and tell them to start again, with the state of IL's backing; 2) walk to the El, realize how great it is, & take action to save its budget.

aw my old studio building 🥲 smell ya later, gross bathrooms 👋

about to buy a house where i will “get to spend” about $10k at the extremely literal brick and mortar store pretty soon (no one keeps up with their tuckpointing)

my friend’s 6th grader has announced that i’m the only adult she knows “with aura” so i’m just feeling very validated by the youth today

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We don't talk enough about how any contact at all with the criminal punishment system can destroy your life. The arrest, the court dates, missing work and other associated costs etc... People who aren't proximate to this really have no idea.

nice that the cover portrait is by Dina Litovsky; i love her work! (she has a great newsletter that is sadly on substack and i look forward to her finding another platform so i feel okay paying for it again, but still a good read if you’re a photo nerd)

ah they're warming up for the air and water show again in chicago

I've plotted my top recommended bike routes starting at the south end of the Lakefront Trail in Chicago to make it easier to share some of my favorite routes! They all basically work in reverse, but I've also tried to include train connections at the ends. All have detailed notes. #bikechi

it would be cooler if they were just kept open for 2 weeks of adults-only so us self-employed weirdos could have a quiet Tuesday afternoon at the pool with no children around

DON'T TALK TO THE POLICE

Put it on the ballot every year until it passes

Talked to a few Chicagoans about bailing on Spotify

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

Yeah, I think this what makes it hard for Americans who haven’t experienced autocracy elsewhere to realize—life under authoritarianism can still look like pleasant summers, bbq on the weekend, after work happy hour with friends—until snap, a coworker or family member goes missing

As of this morning, (unsure when exactly since Friday when I last rode Halsted here) bikes can no longer get to Chicago from Halsted easily. If you’re willing to carry your bike over a large concrete barrier, go for it (like I did this morning lol) but don’t recommend with larger or heavier bikes.

Oh wow. Thread. The Chicago Police overtime budget is a scam, a con, and is going to take the rest of the city's programs to the cleaners once we face the Trump cuts.